One year ago today, I posted The Plan, the kickoff post both for this blog and for an ambitious DSP transceiver project. My wife had started a blog a few months earlier, and I was her sysadmin. I saw the fun she was having, and soon realized that administering two WordPress sites would not be much more work than administering one. The year since has brought 57 posts and pages about topics ranging from delta sigma data conversion to electronics books for children, but I’ve kept the project emphasis and the full-documentation style.

I changed my focus to building a transceiver around R2 receiver and T2 transmitter kits that are old enough to vote. That project is still in progress, by the way. The R2’s output amp isn’t working right yet.

I’ve added project pages to Skywired. The top menu bar will now list one page devoted to each project I write about on the blog. The project pages will make a one-stop location for getting schematics, layouts, and source code, and they will have a list of posts related to the project, too.

The first project page is about the A3PN250 FPGA Breakout Board. It will be joined by others as more projects cross my workbench.

I’m excited about the project pages. This is a feature I’ve planned from the start of the blog. I think you’ll find them a big help.

I’m happy to announce a new tutorials section here on Skywired! A click on “Tutorials” on the menu bar above will take you to a list of Skywired’s how-tos and explanations. The first tutorial is about how to solder fine-pitch parts, such as QFPs, TSSOPs, SOICs, and so forth. Over time, I plan to expand the range of tutorials to cover both practice and theory.